SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY"Like the nerd crowned prom queen, Murphy Spicer’s works glory in the awkwardness of it all."Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe"Murphy Spicer makes work that is visually alluring, cerebral, all the while being provocatively casual."Shana Dumont Garr, New American Paintings blog“Somewhere indefinable between painting, sculpture and drawing resides Nancy Murphy Spicer's Drawing Objects.”Shawn Hill,South End News

WRITINGThe New Brag: Erasure and Co-Constitution of SelfMFA Thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018

WHAT WAS FOUND: The Archive Project104-page artists book surveying 20 years of practice, 2018

The New Brag Paintings32-page artists book including all paintings in the seriesalong with text by the artist and the subjects of the paintings, 2018

Forthcoming:Essay on Cy Twombly's On Returning from Tonnicoda in Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan CollectionBook published in relation to the exhibition at theArt Institute of Chicago, 2020